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Dr Francesco Borghesi’s research interests include: medieval and Renaissance philosophy; Renaissance humanism (civic and religious); history of philosophy; literature, philosophy and theology of the middle ages and the early modern period; history of religious and political thought; textual bibliography, textual criticism and scholarly editing; digital philology; historiography; history of the classical tradition.

Dr Giorgia Alù has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests range from nineteenth-century Italian cultural history to comparative literature and visual studies.

Dr Mauceri has been conducting research on migrant literature in Italy for the past ten years and has publishied several essays on this subject. Recently she co-authored a book on the represenation of alterity in contemporary native and migrant writers in Italy: Nuovo Immaginario Italiano.

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Academic staff have expertise in the areas of history, literature, film and culture, including topics such as Renaissance Florence, Italian sociolinguistics, language and migration, Italian literature and philosophy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, history of ideas, and intellectual and philosophical debates in contemporary Italy. The resources available to staff and students in the University's Fisher Library are the most extensive in Australia, with comprehensive holdings and highest level electronic subscriptions in Italian language and literature as well as history, fine arts and the social sciences. Departmental research seminars are conducted regularly each semester. Research students present papers at this seminar on their work in progress, or workshop papers they are preparing for publication or for international conferences.